PickVidsBest Religion, belief & skepticism Videos
The 45 Religion, belief & skepticism videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 6 intermediate, 38 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include Thunderf00t, Mick West, Jordan B Peterson.
In Search Of A Flat Earth
Dan Olson's 76-minute essay on flat earth belief, built around a hike to a lake to test earth's curvature.
Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
The first lecture of Jordan Peterson's 2017 Maps of Meaning course, setting out the Cold War context for his theory of belief and culture.
'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009
Lawrence Krauss's 2009 talk on the current picture of the universe, how it will end and how it could have come from nothing.
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet came to him for examination.
Gimbal UFO - A New Analysis
Mick West analyzes the Navy's Gimbal UFO video and gives four checkable observations suggesting it is an infrared glare that appears to rotate because the camera rotates while tracking.
I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)
Miniminuteman begins a long, humorous point-by-point debunking of Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse and its claims of a lost ice-age civilization.
Televangelists: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on televangelists and the 'seed faith' prosperity gospel.
Flat Earth: A Measured Response
hbomberguy investigates the modern flat earth movement and why people come to believe it.
Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!
Mick West analyzes the Navy "Go Fast" UFO footage and shows with simple trigonometry and the data overlay that the object is slow and high up, consistent with a balloon.
Religions and babies | Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling's TEDxSummit talk asks whether some religions have higher birth rates and how that affects population growth.
Lecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan Peterson's first lecture in his Biblical Series examines the idea of God as sovereignty and power abstracted from any individual ruler, and as the pattern inherent in human dominance hierarchies.
Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)
Adam Neely tests the claims for tuning to A=432 Hz by trying the unusual tuning systems that its proponents' numerology requires.
Who is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism
An ESOTERICA episode tracing Yahweh from a warrior-storm god near Mt Seir to the god of the Israelites in the Judean highlands.
Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie
Animated adaptation of Tim Minchin's beat poem 'Storm', in which he argues with a hippie at a London dinner party.
James Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life
Synthetic organic chemist James Tour gives a lecture arguing that origin-of-life research is far from explaining how life began.
Holy Post - Race in America
Phil Vischer of VeggieTales and Holy Post gives an 18-minute history of racial injustice in America, covering why anger persists despite civil rights laws.
The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber
A dialogue with Gary Weber on the default mode network, meditation and non-dual awakening, with discussion of psychedelics, thought and time.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on the biological underpinnings of religiosity, from his human behavioral biology course.
Sir Roger Penrose & William Lane Craig • The Universe: How did it get here & why are we part of it?
Physicist Roger Penrose and philosopher William Lane Craig discuss the origin of the universe on the Unbelievable?
Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
Sam Harris's talk at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention on the secular attitude toward death and living in the present moment, with a guided meditation element.
Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK
A re-upload of Rupert Sheldrake's TEDx talk The Science Delusion, which TED removed from its channel.
Richard Dawkins demonstrates the evolution of the eye
An excerpt from Richard Dawkins's lecture on Climbing Mount Improbable demonstrating how a complex eye can evolve through incremental steps.
Leaked: Pentagon's UFO -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t analyzes the leaked Pentagon UFO videos and offers mundane explanations for the fuzzy triangle and tic-tac footage.
Swami Sarvapriyananda at IITK - "Who Am I?" according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1
A lecture by Swami Sarvapriyananda at IIT Kanpur on the Mandukya Upanishad and the question 'Who am I?'.